{"id":2003,"date":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2003"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"tower, james allen, 1905-1961  ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2003","title":{"rendered":"TOWER, JAMES ALLEN, 1905-1961"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Educator.  Born&#8211;  June 5, 1905 in Northport, Ala.  Parents&#8211;  Louis Lovell and Minnie  (Perkins) Tower.  Married&#8211;  Elizabeth Ozley, May 9, 1947.  Children&#8211;  Two.  Education&#8211;  University of Washington, A.B., M.S., Ph.D.  Taught geography at American University of Beirut, 1928-1936; Birmingham Southern College, 1936-1961; visiting professor at University of Washington and at George Peabody College.  Received AAAS grant for 1960-1961 and Rosenwald Fellowship 1947-1948.  Member Phi Beta Kappa. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Grove&#8217;s Library of Alabama Lives.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Industrial Development in Alabama;  Growth and Distribution.  Birmingham,                      Ala.;  Birmingham Southern College, 1958. <\/p>\n<p>     Industrial Development of the Birmingham Region.  Birmingham Southern College, 1953. <\/p>\n<p>     The Oasis of Damascus.  Beirut;  American Press, 1935. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Educator. Born&#8211; June 5, 1905 in Northport, Ala. Parents&#8211; Louis Lovell and Minnie (Perkins) Tower. Married&#8211; Elizabeth Ozley, May 9, 1947. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; University of Washington, A.B., M.S., Ph.D. Taught geography at American University of Beirut, 1928-1936; Birmingham Southern College, 1936-1961; visiting professor at University of Washington and at George Peabody College. Received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-t-v"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}